Affiliation:
1. Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
2. Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
3. Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
Abstract
Hypoxia not only plays a critical role in multiple disease conditions; it also influences the growth and development of cells, tissues and organs. To identify novel hypoxia-related mechanisms involved in cell and tissue growth, studying a precise hypoxia-sensitive time window can be an effective approach. Drosophila melanogaster has been a useful model organism for studying a variety of conditions, and we focused in this study on the life cycle stages of Drosophila to investigate their hypoxia sensitivity. When normoxia-grown flies were treated with 4% O2 at the pupa stage for 3, 2 and 1 day/s, the eclosion rates were 6.1%, 66.7% and 96.4%, respectively, and, when 4% O2 was kept for the whole pupa stage, this regimen was lethal. Surprisingly, when our hypoxia-adapted flies who normally live in 4% O2 were treated with 4% O2 at the pupa stage, no fly eclosed. Within the pupa stage, the pupae at 2 and 3 days after pupae formation (APF), when treated for 2 days, demonstrated 12.5 ± 8.5% and 23.6 ± 1.6% eclosion, respectively, but this was completely lethal when treated for 3 days. We conclude that pupae, at 2 days APF and for a duration of a minimum of 2 days, were the most sensitive to hypoxia. Our data from our hypoxia-adapted flies clearly indicate that epigenetic factors play a critical role in pupa-stage hypoxia sensitivity.
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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